Giordano, U: Fedora

[Dessì’s] performance displays powerful, authentically tangy tone, rock-solid technique and a touching stage presence. There’s some squalliness at the top of the voice, admittedly, but this is... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018 More…

Release Date: 16th Feb 2018
Catalogue No: 57772
Label: Dynamic

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Giordano, U: Fedora

Daniela Dessì (Fedora), Fabio Armiliato (Loris), Alfonso Antoniozzi (De Siriex), Daria Kovalenko (Olga)
Carlo Felice Theatre
Valerio Galli

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The soprano Daniela Dessì died suddenly on 20th August 2016, aged 59. She was hailed by critics and colleagues as one of the finest voices the world of opera has ever known. Dynamic pays tribute to the great soprano with this recording, filmed just one year before her untimely death. Her performance of Giordano’s Fedora was one of the pinnacles of her stunning artistic career. In the famous aria O grandi occhi lucenti from Act One, she delivers a technically perfect and emotionally passionate performance worthy of a great star. The story takes place at the end of the 19th century, in St. Petersburg (Act One), Paris (Act Two) and Switzerland (Act Three). It's an operatic crime story, a drama of passion, revenge and guilt that unravels against a historical backdrop of Czarist Russia's political and ideological conflicts in the late 19th century. Daniela Dessì is a complete prima donna of outstanding finesse, her rich voice both powerfully intense and deeply expressive. Tenor Fabio Armiliato shines particularly in the famous aria Amor ti vieta from Act Two, with a commanding and highly expressive stage presence in support of a powerful and wonderfully nuanced voice. The finale of the opera is reserved for the two protagonists, companions both on stage and in life. The singers surpass themselves, and it is impossible not to be moved when Fedora dies, believing that fate would shortly turn theatrical makebelieve into reality.

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June 2018

[Dessì’s] performance displays powerful, authentically tangy tone, rock-solid technique and a touching stage presence. There’s some squalliness at the top of the voice, admittedly, but this is a timely reminder of a fine artist…Daria Kovaloenkjo’s spunky Olga and the impressive bass Roberto Maietta as Gretch are the pick of the rest of the cast.

August 2018

Giordano’s score possesses genuine melodic appeal and a regular sense of atmosphere. It is very well performed here by the Genoese company, chorus and orchestra under the focused baton of Valerio Galli.

Opera Now March 2018

Daniela Dessì (1957- 2016) stars as Fedora, filmed in Genoa in 2015, a year before her death. She is consummate in the role, by turns imperious, tender, passionate and conflicted. Her soprano suits Giordano’s music wonderfully, with its idiomatic phrasing, colouration and thrust. Rosetta Cucchi’s production shows the aged tenor Loris onstage throughout, looking back over his life. Scrims and gauzes are used to divide the stage into different visual depths, allowing a blend of times and memories to overlap. Simple but highly effective.

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